Limbaugh targeted Hillary Clinton, Al Gore for his "Starvation for Serenity Center"

Reacting to medical studies that suggest that Terri Schiavo may be experiencing euphoria, not pain, with the removal of her feeding tube, nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh proposed the creation of a "Starvation for Serenity Center" and suggested using Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) and former Vice President Al Gore in "a series of potential advertisements ... [that] show that it might work." He added: "[W]hat would [Clinton] sound like after a week or two at my Starvation for Serenity Center?"

From the March 25 edition of The Rush Limbaugh Show:

LIMBAUGH: I'm thinking of starting a movement out there, ladies and gentlemen. You know, acrimony in society is just getting -- and it's been epitomized all week on this program. I mean, the battle lines are drawn. The partisanship is worse than ever. We've heard all this. We've got to do something about it. And I think that one of the larger issues that has come out of the whole Schiavo case are the benefits of starvation. And there are true benefits. There's peace. There is dignity. There is even euphoria. We could say that there is serenity. Now, I think it even has been said that this will be a serene or is a serene way to go. So I'm thinking of actually opening up a series of Starvation for Serenity Centers around the country.

You can check in and pay me a fee, and I will starve you. And you will say, "Well, what does it cost? What does it cost you to starve me?" Ah, that's a good question. Somebody's got to pay for the buildings. Somebody's got to pay for the rent and the air conditioning and all this. And somebody's got to pay for the setting in which you are going to be euphoric as you starve. So if you want to solve the problem of partisanship and all of us going at each other and our throats and so forth, then Starvation for Serenity. I'm thinking I'm even going to work up a series of potential advertisements for this because I think we can show that it might work, with using certain politicians.

So, you know, what would Hillary Clinton sound like normally, what would she sound like after a week or two at my Starvation for Serenity Center? We'll be able to show this. Same thing with Al Gore. Al Gore before entering my Starvation for Serenity Center, and after two weeks there. Now, we're not going to promise a 100 percent success rate. We hope maybe 67, 70 percent success rate. We're not going to guarantee that everybody will get serene when they come to my starvation center. (interruption) What, Mr. Snerdley? Nobody will be allowed to sneak in food. We'll have marshals. We'll have law enforcement personnel, we'll have electric security, we'll have shock belts on people if they try to, you know, get past a barrier. No, that won't work. No, if somebody tries to sneak food in there, then they will feel pain. I guarantee you. At my Starvation for Serenity Center, that's where the pain will be -- when people walk in there and try to feed somebody trying to improve themselves and make a better life for themselves by starving at my center.